Mr Tinubu said Nigeria has gifted youth and capable hands to actualize the vision of leading Africa in digital technology.
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In view of his administration’s 3MTT programme, which is training three million Nigerian youth in digital technology and essential skills before deploying them to innovation hubs across the nation, the president emphasised that Nigerian youth are the most critical asset in Nigeria’s arsenal as it moves to achieve digital economic expansion.
Emphasising the importance of technology in driving small businesses, the President said he is committed to ensuring that technology is deployed, adapted, enhanced, and used to catalyze growth across a vast majority of micro-businesses, spurring mass prosperity down the line. “It is an extraordinary infrastructure project. When it comes on stream in the first quarter of 2025, it will be twice as much as the capacity of all subsea cables that exist. We buried the cable 50 per cent deeper than any other subsea cables under the seabed. It is more powerful and more extensive in terms of its geographical connectivity. It could yield up to 37 billion dollars worth of increase in economic activity in the next two or three years across the African continent,” he said.
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